Weight-Lost Challenge

While many people thought I would have written about this before now, but I have shown tremendous restraint. Impressive, I know. We are now officially in the final 24 hours of this challenge. The act of writing that makes me hungry. So the way this thing works is we weigh in once a week (we do this on Wednesdays before Lost, hence the name). We are measuring our weight loss by percentage weight lost so that it is fair, and whoever loses the largest percent at the end is the winner. The three losers will pay the winner $100 each so the winner gets $300. The players are Soups, Robby, Ward and me (although Soups sorta threw in the towel a few weeks back and is no longer really in contention) The final weigh in will take place tomorrow night at approximately 7:30 PM and at this point in time the race is way too close to call.

I have entered my final phase of this competition. I cannot reveal what that consists of at this time, but it's not super fun. I was leading at the last weigh in, but I don't think I've lost anything since last week....I'm honestly just hoping I didn't gain, and I have no way of knowing how everyone else is doing. Keep your fingers crossed and I'll let you know how it turns out...

Incurable Optimism

OK, so I stole this from Michael J. Fox, but with his recent TV special to promote his most recent book, I have been sucked into his incurable optimism. I have always thought of myself as an optimist, but it's not always as easy as it sounds to know that everything is going to work out. I know this could be overkill, but it's something I've been focusing on...with Marty McFly's book and the uncertainty I hadn't expected in my life. Anyway, I have to stay optimistic or I will end up completely depressed. I really like this quote from How I Met Your Mother (I know it's lame that I'm taking so much life advice from a sit-com). It embodies what I hope for, I guess, and I think it's pretty true.

"Don't forget, on any day, you can step out the front door and your world can change forever"

It has before, and it will again...

We Live and We Learn

My pendulum is still swinging a little wide, but I'm noticing a definite improvement. For example, I met a boy and let myself get totally caught up in it. (I know, I know better than that!) Then as quickly as my short lived love affair began, it was over. So in the span of 10 days, I was on top of the world and then came crashing back down to earth. So that sucked, but it's not all bad. It gave me hope. For the first time, I met somebody that I hadn't known before that I could see myself being happy with. That is progress, and something I was starting to doubt was ever going to happen, despite the insistence of friends and family. Everyone says "you're a great catch...you'll meet someone", but until that happens, it's hard to believe. So while I'm slightly disheartened, I know there's hope. From this experience, I have also just about decided to give up match.com. How embarassing to say you met your boyfriend/fiance/husband online. No offense to all the people who do this, but I just don't feel comfortable with that. There's an episode of How I met your mother when Ted brings a girl to the bar that he met online and Barney says that only crazy girls find guys online - this is when he introduces the hot/crazy scale, which I have taken into consideration before making many an important decision in my life. So while the pros of online dating are 1. I don't have to go anywhere 2. there are a lot of people on there that I might not otherwise meet 3. you skip a lot of the BS. The downside is 1. There are a lot of losers out there 2. it's kinda lame 3.you skip a lot of the BS. So I'm still trying to decide how to procede. I guess I will accept opinions on this topic.

In other news, today is my mother's 50th birthday! If you see or hear from her, please wish her a happy birthday. Even though at this point, it will probably be belated. She has had the best birthday ever so far which is encouraging. Her team teachers decorated her room and brought her a cake, she got flowers from me, lots of flowers from my dad, another cake from the parents of her students and they basically partied all day. I think she would most definitely agree that this is one of, if not the best birthday she has ever had. It's only getting better because my dad's having a party for her Saturday and they're going out tonight and she's as happy with her life as she ever has been. I know not every birthday has been so perfect so I just need to keep in mind that while things aren't as perfect right now as I think they could be, the best is yet to come.